'This isn't China, is it?'

Wrong country. Wrong year. The country is Oceania and the year is 1984.
Daily Caller:
A North Carolina elementary school forced a preschool student to eat cafeteria chicken nuggets for lunch on Jan. 30 after officials reportedly determined that her homemade meal wasn't up to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's standards for healthfulness, according to a report from the Carolina Journal.
The newspaper reported that the four-year-old girl brought a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, potato chips and apple juice in her packed lunch from home. That meal didn't meet with approval from the government agent who was on site inspecting kids' lunches that day.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Child Development and Early Education requires that all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs must meet USDA guidelines. Meals, the guidelines say, must include one serving each of meat, milk and grain and two servings of fruit or vegetables. Those ...(Read Full Post)